|
|
Historical Event on 5/8/1997
Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/6/1903 | A full length theatre plays like 'Bankimchandrer Sitararn', 'Alibaba' , 'Bhramar', 'Hariraj' , 'Sarla' and 'Buddhadeb' were released at Classic Theatre. These plays were picturised by Hiralal Sen with support of great dramatist Amar Nath Dutt. The main roles were performed by Amar Dutt, N.C. Basu and Kusum Kumari and rest of the characters belonged to the Classic Theatre of Calcutta. They received a great applause from the audience. |
| 5/9/1917 | Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India. |
| 6/30/2000 | The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council adopts a resolution seeking separation from J&K. |
| 1/26/1992 | Bharat Bhushan, the legendary romantic film hero of the 1950's, passed away at the age of 71 years. |
| 6/18/1995 | The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 8/14/1900 | S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born. |
| 3/10/1999 | Lok Sabha approves the Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999, by a voice vote. |
| 9/20/1932 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables. |
| 10/29/1990 | Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, died. |
|
![]()
|
|
|
